STARKVILLE, Mississippi -- Starkville police say a Mississippi State University student died Tuesday from injuries suffered in a one-vehicle accident the near the campus.

MSU officials identified the student as Kaleb D. Barker, a freshman kinesiology major from Lucedale. He was a 2013 graduate of George County High School.

"The Mississippi State University family is heartbroken today over this very tragic accident," MSU President Mark E. Keenum said.

"Kaleb was a young man with a great deal of promise," he said. "We feel a deep sense of grief and our thoughts and prayers will remain with Kaleb's family and his many friends in Lucedale and here at MSU."

Friends and relatives immediately took to Facebook upon learning of Barker's wreck.

Sonya Barker posted a prayer request for her son early this morning, then later she said he was being air-lifted to Jackson. A little after 9 a.m., she posted on her Facebook wall that Kaleb Barker had died.

On his Facebook timeline, the community expressed their love for the teen and called him "an amazing classmate and friend."

Barker was in the news in 2010 with his band, Hush the Silence, which had just recorded and released a debut EP titled "Live Out Loud."

The band mates -- including Barker on drums, vocalist Reese Lott, Kolby Rester on guitar and Sawyer Steede on bass -- were all sophomores in high school at the time.

They said then that they followed "Core 4" principals, which basically meant no alcohol or tobacco, no drugs, no premarital sex and always stand for what you believe in.

Music ran in Barker's family, as his father, Dwayne Barker, is a member of local modern rock band Before Nine.

Taylor Manning, a family friend, remembered the teenager as "very humble and a very, very talented musician" on Tuesday afternoon.

"He had that artsy side and a brainy side," she said. "Normally you have either/or, but he had both. He was definitely smart."

Kaleb Barker was unlike most guys his age "because he was very much the respectful type," Manning said.

"He didn't get out of line with anybody," she said. "He was reserved, but still fun and outgoing. I don't know of even one enemy he had."

Manning took his senior portraits, and she said even though he had dark hair she joked that "he should have been blonde."

Every time she instructed him on a pose, she said, "he would do the exact opposite."